Welcome Back!
Welcome Back!

Welcome back to campus and to the 2024-25 academic year, with a special welcome to first-year students and newly declared majors and minors! I’m delighted to greet you in my role as new department chair.

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Senior Spotlights: Rebecca Radillo
Senior Spotlights: Rebecca Radillo

“Raising High & Saying Goodbye: Rebecca Radillo is a graduating senior majoring in English. She currently has an internship with TheDailyFandom.org where she writes on pop culture with an academic lens–she already has an article published analyzing Doctor Strange through an Orientalist and disability lens. She will be attending Boston College in the fall for […]

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English Department Receives a Mellon Grant
English Department Receives a Mellon Grant

The English Department has received a $487,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to support “Story for All: Disability Justice Collaboratories.”

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Professor Spotlight: Patricia Chu
Professor Spotlight: Patricia Chu

  Professor and Deputy Chair of English Patricia Chu published her book Where I Have Never Been: Migration, Melancholia, and Memory in Asian American Narratives of Return (Temple, 2019) just last Fall! Her book provides valuable insight into the narratives of diasporic Asians, as their offspring travel to Asia to reclaim their heritage. Where I Have Never Been “reframes […]

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PhD Student Spotlight: Joanna Falk
PhD Student Spotlight: Joanna Falk

What is the subject of your dissertation and how did you decide what your topic would be?   My dissertation is about paratexts – all the stuff that’s not technically part of the “main” text but that serves to present it in some way.  Titles are paratexts, as are introductions, footnotes, endnotes, appendices, etc.  More specifically, I […]

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GW Student Marissa Ciampi’s Poem Selected for Website

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March 31, 2011
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Poet Claudia Rankine included a poem by GW student Marissa Ciampi on her website. Recently Prof. Gregory Pardlo posted a piece here …

Kudos for 2 Faculty Award Winners

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March 25, 2011
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to Prof. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, recipient of a highly competitive American Council of Learned Societies Grant for 2011-12. to  Prof. Thomas Mallon, …

MEMSI Conference Afterthoughts: “Animal, Vegetable, Mineral”

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March 23, 2011
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A packed crowd listens to Jane Bennett’s keynote address at the recent GW MEMSI conference. GW MEMSI hosted an extraordinary conference March …

“Modern-day Jane Austen” to read Thursday at 7 p.m.

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March 22, 2011
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Allegra Goodman Novelist Allegra Goodman will be reading at the Marvin Center Amptitheater at 7 p.m. on Thursday as a part of …

Spring Break has Sprung

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March 12, 2011
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We’re not quite there yet. But it is Spring Break. Here’s what students and professors are doing over the break: Prof. Tara …

Alumna Lilly Rivlin Screens Film about Writer Grace Paley

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March 6, 2011
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Writer and Activist Grace Paley Last Thursday, I had the opportunity to attend the screening of Lilly Rivlin’s documentary Grace Paley: Collected …

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